cause and rebel against the government‚ while creating a society that stands souly on the individual anarchist in it. Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants‚ and proclaimed anarchists‚ put on trial for allegedly robbing and murdering a pay clerk and a security guard‚ that were bringing pay for workers from the bank. Saco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death. Sacco and Vanzetti were believed to become anarchists based on there strong opposition to war. They believed that it was suppose to be
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into the US. During the 1920s immigrants from specific areas in the world were not openly received. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were both Italian immigrants who were treated unjustly for their beliefs. Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists who were executed for the murder of a paymaster and his guard that took place in Massachusetts in 1927 (“Sacco-Vanzetti Case facts”). During Sacco and Vanzetti’s trial‚ feelings towards immigrants were negative thus affecting
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The trail of Sacco and Vanzetti is the quintessential example of corruption in a court of law. The evidence presented at the time of the trial‚ was not significant enough. This was an instance in which anti-labor and anti-immigrant sentiment carried the day‚ trampling every imaginable concept of justice. For a generation of American‚ the names of the two Italian anarchists are forever linked. Questions about their 1921 trial for the murders of a paymaster and his guard bitterly spread thought the
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reported that both of these men were Italian’s. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were with two other men while they went to a garage to claim a car that local police connected with the crime. The police then arrested them‚ due to their being “suspicious characters.” This became one of the most controversial cases in American history. Sacco and Vanzetti were Anarchists that feared the Department of Justice. In July 1921‚ Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty after the trial in Dedham‚ Massachusetts
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In a prominent quote stated by Bartolomeo Vanzetti after being sentenced to death said‚ “The jury were hating us because we were against the war‚ and the jury don’t know that it makes any difference between a man that is against the war because he believes that the war is unjust‚ because he hate no country‚ because he is a cosmopolitan‚ and a man that is against the war because he is in favor of the other country that fights against the country in which he is‚ and therefore a spy‚ an enemy‚ and he
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The Sacco-Vanzetti affair is the most famous and controversial case in American legal history. In our history‚ justice has not always resulted in fairness‚ but instead in the denial of the rights of ordinary citizens. In the 1920’s‚ a tumultuous decade of social unrest‚ numerous Americans were discriminated against for their political or religious beliefs and ethnicity. It was a decade of intense nationalism‚ in which the rights of immigrants were violated in such events as the Red Scare and Palmer
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Sacco and Vanzetti Thesis: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian anarchists who were found guilty of armed robbery and murder in a trial and conviction that incited protests around the world and has been questioned ever since their sentence was handed down. Sacco and Vanzetti immigrated in 1908 to the United States of America from two different parts of Italy and met 10 years later when they were convicted of two crimes. Sacco worked as a shoemaker‚ was married‚ and had a family
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SACCO AND VANZETTI Sacco and Vanzetti were victims of the short-lived Red Scare‚ which was the United States’ fear of the growing power of Communists‚ or Reds. When a factory paymaster was robbed and murdered along with his guard‚ Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested after witnesses described the murderers as being Italian. Sacco was a shoemaker and Vanzetti was a fish peddler. Despite the fact that they had alibis and that there was only circumstantial evidence against them‚ they
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Sacco and Vanzetti Trial On April 15‚ 1920 a paymaster for a shoe company in South Braintree‚ Massachusetts was shot and killed. The killers were described as Italian men who escaped with $15‚776.51. Police found Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in a car shop with what they believed to be what was used as the getaway car. What turns out to have happened though is that Sacco and Vanzetti had participated in a separate crime on the same day as the robbery and killing. Police believed that both
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The case of Sacco and Vanzetti reflected in the fear of communism‚ immigration and anarchy to all those living in America during the 1920’s. As the commentators in the documentary debate whether or not the accusations of Sacco and Vanzetti murdering the payroll master and his guard were fair in this trial and if these two anarchists were guilty or not‚ I concluded that the aspects of the commentators towards the case was taken in a more personal matter. The narration of this documentary was told
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